Vittorio Francalanza
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Italy
Vittorio Francalanza is a Ph.D. student in Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics at the University of Catania and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics – Southern National Laboratories (INFN-LNS), Italy. He graduated in Astrophysics with a strong interest in theoretical and computational approaches to cosmology, plasma, and space physics. His current research focuses on the propagation and absorption of Ion Cyclotron (IC) waves in turbulent tokamak-edge plasmas, using analytical models as well as numerical and stochastic methods. At INFN-LNS, he is also involved in kinetic and fluid analyses of electromagnetic instabilities arising in ECR plasmas confined in compact magnetic traps. He has developed novel techniques to investigate IC resonance heating scenarios in support of future experiments at the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility in Frascati, Italy.